Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. SIG: A company that has failed many times for the only allowable reason to fail.. "It's too good. We need something worse!"
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  2.  @sakamoto2467  I've been in a similar situation as a Danish 155mm artilleryman. A large batch of shells and charges were due date because in the mid 90s the amount of annual conscripts had been cut by two thirds, but the ammo had been bought when the USSR were at their most provoking stance. So the army could only do one of two things: pay for proper disposal, or pay for barrel refurbishment. Barrel refurbishment was the cheaper option (by far) so we pummelled the training grounds for two weeks straight like it was the battle of the Bulge all over again. It is not misuse of tax payer money to not have a crystal ball that can predict future threat levels. The army must be able to handle a conflict NOW... but since conflicts are relatively rare that does mean ammo stocks regularly expire.
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  3. And Gun Jesus bespoketh upon his humble viewers: "Thy shall not become the very thing that thy despise!". And his humble viewers listened. And they understood. And they nodded in agreement for they saw only truth in this. Hand Canonnations 7.62
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  4. Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well....
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  5.  @s0ulshot  When you have 72 bullets at your disposal spray and pray is an absolutely valid approach to make Ivan think twice about sticking his head up! :P
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  6.  @HighlandLaddie  Well since you're being a twat about it, allow me to retort: @Antillicus did not specify in which respect he thinks Ian is the most pioneering. And "interesting" is an absolutely subjective term. But if the premiss of pioneering is reaching out to people outside the traditional gun enthusiast circles I think he is absolutely right. I wasn't interested in guns in the slightest, despite having done military service. But one day Youtube suggested me some hippie looking dude talking about the rifle I was issued (HK G3), so I figured why the heck not... And that's when I learned that Ian is a really good presenter, so I stuck around. I also happen to like books, and whatdoyaknow. So what I personally think Ian is absolutely pioneering is: Presenting firearms history in an interesting and politically neutral neutral light, with a good balance between observations on mechanical, practical and logistical developments along with anecdotes about the people who made these things happen. Mostly every other channel/source I've come across is slathered in either national pride, political agenda, that weird tin-foil-hat tactical-preperation-for-dooms-day vibe that just puts me off right away, or all of the above.
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  7.  @paulketchupwitheverything767  Not well. And it wasn't required to. For an intelligence service replacing (a very limited number of) plastic grips due to practice wear is absolutely nothing compared to the cost of injecting an agent in a position where this weapon would be used.
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  8. One key metric was omitted: How much weight did the second pattern gain?
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  9. Being good with 5000 rounds with "only an acceptable amount of malfunctions" also speaks to the realistic acknowledgement of how long a soldier, carrying one of these, was expected to survive.
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  10. No, that was perfectly understandable. And as a Dane... I feel the same. I didn't know anything about the Madsen guns, etc, but Ian (as usual) did an entire series on them.
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  11. The Skype delay is real. If you start verbally agreeing it's going to come so late to the recipient that they think you want to interrupt what they're currently saying.
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  12. Yeah.. When you get so respected that the French anti terror unit actively invites you to come have a look at their signature gun your word has more gravity than most....
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  13.  @TheFizzerKing  No the reason why Danish became so weird to pronounce is because we've been better at making beer than you for over a hundred years! ;-P
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  14.  @williestyle35  "Penal" is perfectly valid English. Look up what a penal colony is.
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  15. It is also legal to verbify it: "The gizmo went sproinging across the floor", for example. The term is not unique to firearms lingo, but also rather common among watch makers (for obvious reasons). Canadians have a tendency to cal it "springisproing" and "springisproinging". Dunno why, but AvE (a fairly well known youtuber in the tech field) is rather insistent on it, so I guess we should consider it gospel.
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  16. Ugh... can't we cut him a break on his Elbonian Separatist views? I mean, the guys have never, despite the best of their intends, actually managed to lay harm to a single individual! :P
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  17. "I don't like that thing over there. I also don't like the shed behind it. And I most certainly also don't like the 10 guys hiding behind the shed".
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  18. The two ounce projectiles, assuming they reach 75m/s, should hit you with 157N at point blank which is not a whole hecking lot... but it is the equivalent of lying down and having a 346lbs rod standing on your chest... that is only .5" thick... Those projectiles don't need to be particularly pointy to be absolutely lethal....
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  19. I'm very impressed with Ian's ability to pronounce foreign languages in general... But his attempt at Danish did not go too well. I don't hold that against him, as nobody, even if they've been living here for 30 years after arriving as an adult, can do it.
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  20. Just HK doing HK things I suppose.
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  21. Plot twist: This was really a Stemple receiver disguised as a Hopkins & Allen Model 1889. Ian just wants to know if anyone can spot the difference.
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  22. Yeah, me too. If it still exists someone, somewhere will invite Ian to show case it.
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  23. In traditional Elbonian firearms wisdom constantly center-feeding creates undesirable vibration harmonics, so double feed is very desirable. But being a soul stranglingly poor country they also understand that double stack magazines do not "inspire good ammo frugality" among the troops. Hence the single stack double feed magazine approach is always a winner with the MoD.
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  24. Their minister of defense had the most bad-ass quote at one of the Ramstein meetings: "We would much prefer to be saved than avenged, if you don't mind". That was a response to a NATO reaction time of two weeks in case of invasion. Now there's an entire German Brigade stationed there, so apparently the sentiment had the required gravity.
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  25. I shall henceforth be known as The Stealer of Expressions of Shop Teachers of Random Youtube Commenters :P
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  26. Just wait until someone asks a really deep and interesting question about a French rifle... I wouldn't even blink if Ian travelled to the correct location to answer the question in situ! :P
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  27. Danish pragmatism. Many of the Danish design furniture items, from the same era, follow the same approach. Clean lines, but not outright minimalistic. Avoid complicated production steps, and hide what needs to be somewhat advanced out of view. Choose good, but not exotic, materials. Give it a nice, but not fragile, finish. This has lead to some timeless classics that are still in use today. My TV stand is one of them. It was originally a narrow coffee table with a magazine shelf. It was made in 1954.
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  28. Dammit Ian... knowing you is starting to prove quite expensive! Especially as a European... That being said: I have actively been looking for a non-black-and-white book about Japanese Imperial Swords for quite some time. And come up blank. So, as usual, Headstamp Publishing takes the cake for delivering "the authoritative work on the subject matter at hand" :D
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  29. "I know a guy with a with a 3 axis CNC router that can turn this into a Green Meanie really cheap".
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  30.  @otm646  The US navy sends the warning via radio or loud speaker. They send the disablement via firepower. This is because they're a military force. If you run into them you're an armed force of some description yourself. So you should intuitively understand the gravity of the situation. The Coast Guard sends three warnings. One via radio or loud speaker. A few shots in your general direction, and finally a well placed shot somewhere that clearly says "they could've fucking killed me if they wanted". This is because they're a law enforcement agency. If you run into them you're on the wrong side of the law somehow. However, you may not even realise this. And you are (unfortunately) legally allowed to be stupid. However you're also legally obliged to realize that when your coffee mug is shot to splinters it's time to react to what-the-hell-ever the guy on the other boat is yelling at you. I have zero problems with military forces being ill tempered death dispensers towards adversaries. That's kinda their stated purpose right from the get-go. The problem arises when either A) We try to use military forces as cheap/readily available law enforcement in combat zones, or B) Real law enforcement agencies forget that they're not in a bad action movie and thus act like a military force with a badge and blinking lights.
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  31.  @timewave02012  Today, yes. In '73 when the best pistols had an absolutely atrocious trigger pull and feed reliability was still not 100%, no. You need to appreciate that 48 years ago even the 1911 or Browning Highpower couldn't routinely dump 100 rounds in rapid succession without at least one hickup. For a military force his idea would be dumb as fuck, but GIGN is not a military force. They're an anti-terror unit operating among civilians. They are, if worst come to worst, there to sacrifice themselves in exchange for a hostage. Today a Glock 17L with a hand fitted trigger and a precision barrel would do the job just fine. But '73 is certainly not today....
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  32.  @stanislavczebinski994  It is a hypothesis that it was overkill and that lesser means could have done the trick. It is also a hypothesis that the Japanese would have held out for a considerable amount of time and that famine and decease would have cost a lot more than 200k before they gave in. We will never know for sure as the arguments for both ways are pretty sound.
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  33.  @Wistbacka  By Finnish standards you can perfectly well do a straight faced shitpost that is also a real post. It works in Danish culture too.
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  34.  @edwalmsley1401  Strictly speaking the UMP is better... but armed forces have a tendency to be nostalgic and tradition bound... and on a budget! The UMP is lighter and even smoother on the recoil but it is also substantially more expensive. And as we all know: "90% of the result at half the price" tends to be a hard driving bargain.
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  35. Well, "bullet sprayer gun" is a bit more literal, but everyone got the idea that Swedish, much like German, has a habit of naming things after precisely what they do.
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  36.  @SvenElven  Of cause. "Allah" simply means "God" in Arabic. Saying "If God wills it" is perfectly valid regardless of religion.
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  37. Goddamn the report from that thing is the basis of every Hollywood production with a machine gun in it ever.
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  38. Or they just told the wood working guy "If we're going to work night and day until this weird clockwork pump rifle thingie works, then you're going to work night and day on the stock and pump handle. Fair is fair. We all get to go home at the same time" and he just sighed and went "so checkered, lacquered, horned, customized sweeps, finest knot free wood I can find in a week and what ever else I can come up with to keep myself occupied?"
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  39. Ian: squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak .... squeak
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  40.  @dominichines9996  It's a wafer lock. You can rake this with a tooth pick or a bobby pin.
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  41. The GIGN invited him specifically to come take a look in their arms vault. The GIGN don't even invite French people to see that. The founder of the GIGN gave Ian a personal interview... and apologized for not speaking English with a straight face. The French categorically don't do that. So when people call him Gun Jesus... you better believe it if he says he can walk on bullets!
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  42. Yup. And by being both apolitical and a methodical researcher he is even getting personal invitations, at times, to places very few, if any, as ever been.... Like the armament vault of the GIGN...
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  43. Someone who is nicknamed Gun Jesus. Someone who can call up the French anti terror unit (Who don't speak to anyone. And especially not if they aren't French) and say "I'm the guy who wrote the most impressive book on French military rifles ever... can I come fondle your signature guns for a bit in front of a camera?".. and get a yes! Someone who can get access to every "by appointment only" private armament collection in the world. Someone who gets a personal invitation by Knights Armament to come "do a 100 round mag dump" on their new LMG... Someone who is so stupidly recognized for his knowledge that a company like H&K, who has the PR training of a potato, runs with his nickname and post a Gun Jesus poster on their Insta. Yeah... let's threaten him and call him stupid!
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  44. But the thing is that their "cludgery" is often better than some serial production jank we've seen....
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  45. Make sure the one you get is rated for flammable solvent. Mine isn't, so I'm afraid of arcing causing a kaboom. That said, a mix of water with low foaming soap, 10% acetone and 10% alcohol works wonders on everything I throw in it. I imagine valve cleaner for car engines would work very well with a solvent rated cleaner. Engine carbon build-up isn't chemically far off of gunpowder residue.
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  46. "Today on Forgotten Weapons we're going to take a look at the first stone axe ever made by a human. Obviously historical details are somewhat sparse on the inventor himself, but at least we get to take a look at the axe head itself, as the original handle has been lost to time. It is unmarked, as was common of the time since neither alphabets nor numbers had been invented yet..."
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  47. That setup needs a monocle and a handle bar mustache!
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  48. Remember the killdozer? If local PD had one of these that show would have ended pretty quickly.....
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  49. All of those questions are basically related to income level. If $7k is the choice between having the landlord kick you out, on top of you starvation, and a 249S it makes absolutely no sense. If $7k is the choice between buying more stocks for your $500k portfolio or buying a nice toy, that you'll have as much fun with as you can with your pants on, then this makes perfect sense.
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  50. He looks at the roster and goes "Ok, this time I'm not going to win no matter what so I'll bring an entertaining oddity that will surely fail". However the Laugo Alien is for "Aha! Among these bozos I stand an actual chance! Time to bring out a modern high tech low bore thoroughbred competition gun to improve my odds!" :P
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